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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

THERE ought to be some bright gen.
ious among our readers who is only
waiting for a starter in order that he
may astonish the world by inventing
a machine which hundreds of men have
thought they had discovered the secret
of. If such talent there be hiding in
obscurity like bottle of beer in pro-
hibition cellar, perhaps a suggestion
from us would give him the long look
ed for starter. What's the matter with
examining the intricate machenism of
the female tongue and jaw, and evolv-
ing therefrom the fundamental princi-
pie of perpetual motion?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
No Living by Crops Alone.

He is not the best farmer who re-
allies the most money from a given
number of acres, but he who, while
producing the largest crops possible
with the facilities at hand, does not
fail to keep everything trim and at
trac ctive-the house and grounds in
order; te noes in good condition, those
around the house painted or white
washed; the yard covered with turf
and dotted with trees and shrubbery;
the back yard as neat as the front, not
single corner for rubbish; the kitchen
garden free from weeds and full of ev-
cry vegetable in its season. In the
household everything that tends to the
comfort of the family will be at hand.
At the barn everything can be in
place-no loose boards and litter about
the yard, no holes of dirty water, no
implements wasting in the weather.
A good farmer will be ambitious to
have good road by his premises; even
gratis labor will be given to this end.
In many places trees will be planted
along the way, and neatly trimmed
hedges take the place of unsightly zig
gag fences. The roadside will be
moved in proper season, thus destroy
ng weeds and keeping along the bor-
der a plot of nice green grass. Thus,
in everything pertaining to the farm,
the farmer will not only keep before
his mind the profits to be derived,
but will often be content with less
money in order that the love for the
beautiful and good may be cultivated |
and the highest type Of manhood de-
veloped bv the side of great crops of |
grain and herds of fine stock. IN Y. |
Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

THE changing of collectors at this
point on the Santa Fe road is no small
item of Importance. No traveller 60
ing over that route will fail to remem-
ber Great Bend as the place where they
change collectors :going east OF west.
And right here we might add, that the
Santa Fe people are contemplating an
other move that will greatly benefit our
town in an entirely different way, the
facts concerning which are not yet
ready for publication.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
Skill VS., Capital.

Many classes of skilled workers, or
carpenters, masOns, machanists, engin-
eers, ETC., average So or more per day,
bringing their real capital up to the
neighborhood of $4,000. In this view,
we see the advantage of devOting a few
years of boyhOod and early manhood to
being thoroughly skilled i'll some one of
the trades. The farmers SON, if he is
wise enough TO stick to his fathers call
ing, and to study it carefully, is acquir-
ing a capital. i'll himself and in his
knowledge and skill, which is quite as
valuable as that of the mechanic. If a
son is set on going into some other cali
ing, the wise parents will, from the
above, see the value of having him
thoroughly skilled in whatever pursuit
he is to follow, since at last one-half Of
the income received is for skill.-PrGi-
RE Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

/ most frightful calamity to the State
and one that will be more disastrous
than any VIII ich has ever yet afflicted a
local section. And yet it will not be
local. For thousands and hundreds of
thousands of dollars have been swept
into the stream, from outside sections,
and much of it will be most certainly
lost. The correspondent of the New
York Herald at Los Angeles, in re-
cent letter, gave an interview with a
Californian, who said: Look here
very few people pay cash down for
what they are buying, becase very
small proportion of buyers mean to
hold. The universal rule has been one
third down and the balance in six
months and year. Of late sellers are
taking tenth down, which is sign
that the buyers are less eager. Well,
some OF us made a calculation the
other day which is startling. 1t is
that taking the whole country between
San Diego and Sacramento, in which
the speculator has been most rampant,
the deferred payments, due in Novem-
Der and December, will foot up about
$45, 100000 That is to say, the great
army of men and women spectators
who have bought for a rise and paid
third OF less down must pay up between
$40, 100000 and $45,O0O,OO between
now and next January, or forfeit their
purchases and what they have already
paid.'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

THAT jolly time of the year has some
when the aspiring nimrod hustles out
before the break of day and sneaks
along the river bank tolslay the migrat-
ing goose. And in the quiet evening,
as he gathers around the grocery fire to
spit the hours away his wonderous tales
of the exploits of the day are some
what of the kind which should be ''told
to the Marines
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
An Almost Bursted Boom.

A Santa Fe passenger agent on
Thursday said that the emigrant travel
at Kansas City has reached such pro-
portions that they were unable to gel
the people out of the city, and were
boarding great many at cheap hotels
until they could get their cars back
from the coast. When the Santa Fe
system is taxed to such degree, it is
evideL that the westward tide of trav-
ell has grown to immense proportions.
The greater portion of these people are
of limited means. They 60 out into
the land of the boom with the idea
that something will fall into their up
turned dish, but they have no money
to make the first investment of such a
character as the occasion demands. The
natural and certain result will be this:
women will be dropped down in Cali
fornia to become utterly bankrupt and
respondent, and subjects of actual
charity. The leading California papers
decry the methods that have been used
to get these people of small means to
sell out their holdings in the states and
go to the coast. That country is land
where everything is done on the big
money basis, and in such place the
small fellows, who have only the avails
of homestead in their pockets, cannot
expect to do more than to use it up in
the ordinary support of life.
Under an excitement hardly equalled
since the days when John Law swept
France with his South Sea bubble, land
values in Southern California have
been sent away beyond anything to be
found near such cities as London, Paris,
Berlin, New York, Chicago, st. Paul or
Minneapolis. Every advantitious aid
has been sought by the combined real
estate workers to keep up the wild
mood. Brass bands, free lunches, ex-
cursions, free wines, by bidders, and
all that sort of things has been enlisted
to the last, to catch the looker-on.
Money has been made and the fact ad-
vertised. money always awakes the
greed in man, and the hope that he
may also find some one to pluck i'll the
multitude tending thither, causes the
addition of the man to the boomers
who, under ordinary circumstances,
would remain at home.
But there is day of settlement COM
ing. Ninety per cent. of the scales of
land and lots ma de are ON the partial
payment plan. Ten to % per cent. has
been paid OH the purchased property.
That exhausted the ready capital.
Where is the next payment TO come
from, supposing that the buyer cannot
realize on his purchase with the de-
manded doubling in value? That means
mischief And it means that millions
of money must come from somewhere.
and if it does not come it means a
crash, and such crash that the wise
men of California. who are not blinded
by the dust of the boomer, fear as a
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

Everyone can be a boomer. Keep
your money at home. PatroniZe those
who patroDize you. Spend your money
among home institutions, where you
stand a good chance to get it back.
Every dollar spent with stranger is
gone forever. Every dollar you spend
with home man finds its way back to
your pocket. A dollar spent in some
other town goes to help build up that
town. A dollar spent here goes to
help build up our own town. Figure
the thing down fine and you lose mon
ey by buying away from home, even if
you get the article for one-half what it
would cost you at home. Remember
this and act accordingly.-Pueblo,
lCol.l Ckistain.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
Sam Jones Defines a Dnde.


Now some of you young bucks may
not like that, but if you don't like it
you can lump it. Do you hear that?
If you come up here looking decent,
though [ don't quite know how you
can do that, and are duly penitent, 1
think L could take you by the hand,
for l never bear malice, even against
a dude! what is that? A little, dapper
fellow, with hair parted in the middle,
and cane, toothpick shoes, and looks
like he had been melted and poured
into his breeches, he fits them soc
What is dude or dudine? Do you
know. Did you ever see little pimple
on your face when you woke up in the
morning, mith white top to it? That's
a dude; just little pimple of the So
ciety body; just an indication of bad
blood, that's all Did you ever see a,
dudine? When you get up in the morn
ing after you have squeezed that pim-
pie, that's dudine-something to
squeeze; something that men squeeze,
and the tendency of this worldly life
lies in that direction, and l will tell
you whenever there's bad blood in So
ciety it is going TO show itself in that
direction.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
One Way to Help Your Wife.

1t is sad sight to see farmer, who
in middle life, has outgrown his wife
mentally, so that he is ashamed of her
in company; and yet the sight is not
uncommon. He drives to the village
frequently, goes to caucuses and pOlit-
ical meetings, and perhaps takes a trip
''Out west," and evenings he reads the
papers; and as a consequence he keeps
abreast the times and can talk inteli-
gently, while his wife rarely goes any
where, and has almost no time to read,
for the children must be cared for and
the mending done in the evenings. l
think no man can afford this, and at
any cost he should keep his wife at his
intellectual level. If she cannot find
time to read, he should read aloud to
her, and when he travels she should
accompany him. He should make her
his business confidant and talk to her
of whatever he is interested in, and
should make no business ventures
without her knowledge and approval.
There is no farmer SO poor, or so hur-
ried by work, as to make some kind of
vacation out of his reach.-WaldO F.
Brown, in Farm and FIreSide.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

We have noticed Of late that many
people who have moved away from
Pawnee Rock in the early spring and
summer are quietly coming back and
taking up their residence among us
again. Everyone seems 10 think
Pawnee Rock is a good place to live
and we are glad to coincide with
them. Up and down the whole
lenght of the Arkansas valley you will
not find more social, respectable anC
industrious community than Pawnee
Rock. Leader.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

BARTON county has now as good a
clay out' for an immense wheat crop
as she has ever had. a great quantity
has been sown, and the fall has been
everything that could be desired for
the starting of the grain. Wherever
you may 60 you will find bright, green
fields smiling i'll the autumn sun, and
giving promise of a golden harvest in
a few more months.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

FEW people understand the value of
even small efforts in the way of adver-
tising a town. Recently we had oc-
cassion to travel short distance over
the Santa Fe road. At Great Bend,
when we got ON the train, a prominent
real estate firm of the city passed
through the cars and distributed a
number of our state maps and Barton
county advertising matter. After the
train started we went through the cars
to see what attention was being paid
to this free reading matter. On every
side we heard the rattle of paper as the
maps were unfolded, and ratt ing
string of comments was sent down the
aisles. One said: "Why didn't know
they had such a large town out this
far" and another: ''Do you suppose
them's pictures from the sure-enough
houses?" and Say we stop there as we
go back" and by George! We're now
right in the center of Kansas-in
Barton county" One stranger began
questioning another about Great Bend
and Barton county, and sleepy heads
were raised from seats to listen, other
topics were dropped and the questions
of what we can raise, what we get for
it and where we ship it to, We're dis
cussed. Of course we saw other adver-
tising matter which had been distribu-
ted the same way, but as matter of
fact, Barton can make a better show
ing than most other counties in the
state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

''TELL me, azure skies, that DER me
ever CLEAN. can't you unfold to me
some new and breezy scheme, to fix
myself with those who have gone back
on me, and win them DER again, who're
now disposed to fiee?" The. heavens
glimmered in pang of woe, and sigh
ed in pity as they answered, Mop
Lament of the Republican candidates
this fall.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
Church Dedication.

The Walnut Valley United Brethren
church of Barton county mission, Rus
ell district, West Kansas conference,
will be dedicated on Tuesday Oct 25th,
1887. Services will be conducted by
Bishop, j. Weaver, D. D., of Dayton,
Ohio, assisted by Bishop Gephart. NJ.
r. Dewey assistant editor of the Reli-
gious Telescope, of Dayton Ohio, is ex-
pected to be present. Service will
commence at half past 10 o'clock.
This house is located near the center of
Eureka township, 12 miles northwest
of Great Bend; was built new this
season and just completed; is 26x40
feet with Is feet ceiling and handsom-
ly finished. Let one and all take day
and go to the dedication and take adj
vantage of the opportunity it offers
US of seeing and hearing Bishop Wea-
Yer. All are cordially invited. Don't
forget the time and place.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

counties to the east are utterly parched
with drouth. Give this country in ten
years from now the same amount of
rain that has fallen this summer and
we will produce enough corn to feed
the whole United States.-Greely Coun-
ty Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

The democratic township caucus for
Buffalo township, will be held at the
ming, the 22nd, to nominate a town.
ship ticket. No meeting was held on
the 8th inst, ON account of the bad
weather.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

How MUCH stock have you in the
gas and fuel company? Will 1t not be
a good plan for you to increase it now
while there is chance?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

WE MIGHT remark that the editors
favorite tool is-no, not the scissors, m.
dear-the adj. Sabe?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

THE estimated reduction of the pub
lie debt for the month of September is
SIG. SOC. 900.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

A remarkable freak of nature is re-
ported from East Dubuque. Last Sat
urday the wife of Ernest Bob, fisher
man, gave birth to a female child of
natural size and perfectly developed
save that there are no eyes and no place
for any. The physician cut through
the flesh where the eyes should be and
found nothing but a cavity below.
LosT:-Oct. 18th, between Great
Bend and Uhl & Carney ranch, a
double chinchilla oyercoat, almost
new. Finder will be suitably reward
ed by leaving the same at this Office
or returning TO my residence IN Cbey-
enne township. ID. Il. Smith.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
CHAS- BEYE.
DEALER IN
GROCERIES,
PROVISIONS AND PRODUCE,

A new and splendid line of goods,
which / am selling at the very
owest figures. When you need any
hing n his line give him cali
First door north of Robinson a. Ster
ett's hardware store.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20

Restaurant and Confectionery. day board
and lodging. Fine cigars and tobacco, can
dies, ETC., always on hand. All kinds OF
drinks In their season. Oysters in every
style.
Forest Avenue, first door west Of the Post
Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-18
DEATH OF TRUMAN $. FOOTE.
One of New Havenss Well Known Cit
fSens Suddenly Passes Away.

One of New HavensS Well Known Cit
fSenS Suddenly Passes Away.
Truman S. Foote died suddenly at his late
residence at 304 Wooster street on Thursday
night of Brights disease. He had been in
poor health for some time past, but his death
was unexpected. Mr.. Foote was born forty
two years ago in Bristol, Ct, and when six
teen years of age he came to this city and en-
gagged as clerk in the firm of Tyler & Frost,
and filed that position until about ten years
ago when he obtained an interest in the
wholesale liquor business with w. j. Shee-
han, on State street. The disease of which
he died had obtained such hold on his sys-
tenn that the best medical skill was unable to
stay the ravages of the dreaded malady. On
Thursday evening he accompanied his wife
and child to view the many decorations in
the city's streets. He was suddenly taken
i'll and managed to get home. He grew worse
and finally died unconscious about midnight.
He leaves behind wife and four children,
former are pupils of the High school Mrs.
Foote was the youngest daughter of the late
AshbeI Mix, of Bristol, and is sister of Mrs.
Herrick p. Frost Of this city.
Mr., Foote was an active Democratic poll
ticiau and has served as a member of the
Court of Common Council, was also town
clerk and chairman of the Democratic town
COMMITTEES. He had many friends who will
l,e named to learn that the man theyhave
met frequently recently on the streets Is now
no more. Much sympathy is expressed for
the bereaved family who have lost in him
kind husband and affectionste father.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-18

All Along the Route of March-A Bea,
tifnI and RriNLant Display.

All Along the Route of March-A Beau
tifuI and Brilliant Display.
Residents on the line of march displayed
the national colors and decorated most liber-
ally. On Elm street the more prominent of
the decorations were: DR.. Carmalt displayed
the flag with unique drapings; Mrs. Tibbals
had her balcony draped with bunting; Gov
ernor IngersoH hung the national flag caught
in the center over his doorway; generous ar
ray of bunting, flags and lanterns adorned
Mr.. Holladay's and DR.. F. L. Dibble's resi-
dences; DIR. Russell and DR.. G. L. Dibb1e
adorned their dwellings with the proud flag
of the nation; Mr.. c. P. Merriman was very
Hastily trimmed with bunting and evergreen;
the goddess of liberty holding staff SUE
mounted with azcap of liberty and surround
ed with bunting stood on the portico over. E.
R. Jsffcott's store. Broadway was pretty
sight, both sides of the street gay with bright,
colors. Festoons of bunting with streamers
OF red, white and blue adorned the Day
block; the entire front of G. P Tuttle's store
was covered by d single large American flag;
the Leighton building was bright with fes-
toons of bunting; Curtiss and Pierpont had
long streamers from the roof of their build
ing, it's front well covered with bunting and
Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-18
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Children's note paper at Dormans.
Notary and lodge seals, 721 Chapel street.
About fifty thousand people from other
places were in town yesterday.
Soft and delicate, invigorating and
strengthening yellow label musty ale.
Judge Russell of Portland, Oregon, is in
town, the guest of Mrs. w. II. Brown.
There were no police in the procession yes
terday. A detail of six, however, escorted
the marines to the line.
Professor, w. E. Chandler will conduct a
praise service tomorrow night in English
Hall with large chorus of voices. Seats are
free.
A boy named George Rawling, of Gill
street, was run over by a hack on Church
street yesterday in front of the Exchange
building. He escaped with severe bruises.
Mrs. Martha ]. Lamb, the historian, editor
of the Magazine of American History, was in
town yesterday to attend the celebration.
She is staying at the house of ex-Mayor
Sperry.
The old veterans of the Mexican war who
rode in line yesterday were not overlooked
in the bestowal of applause, and the crippled
frequently applauded.
About o'clock last evening in front of
City Hall driver employed by Charles Aud
ley, the iveryman, drove into the family
carriage of Hugh Plunkett, the carman,
breaking one of the hind wheels.
One lady yesterday, Mrs. Major T. A.
Barnes of Orange street, had sixty-eight
guests at her windows viewing the parade.
Among them were Mrs. General Greeley, Mrs.
General Otis and Mrs. Major Woodruff.
Rev. w. R. Griffith, who breaches at the
George street Al. E. church ON Sunday even
ing, is pastor of the only Welsh Methodist
Episcopal church in the United States and is
one of the most eloquent young clergymen in
the country.
Ammi T. Hull of Company G., First Heavy
Artillery, lost his discharge papers Thursday
night. He is a member of post SO, located
in Woodbury., Conn. He would be greatly
obliged if the finder will return them to
this Office.
An intoxicated individual meddled with
the goat the marines had in their procession
yesterday on Orange street. Refusing to de-
sist and striking blow at the marine in
charge of the goat he was promptly knocked
down. The police got him.
The Knights of Pythias had their head
quarters in the old Union armory yesterday
and entertained visitors from Hartford,
Bridgeport and New York to the number OF
one hundred and seventy-fve at very
sumptuous banquet, which was heartily par
ticipated in by all.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-18

A false alarm of fro was struck at about 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon from box "A, cor
ner of Chapel and High streets, while the
procession was waiting. Nearly everybody
in that vicinity ran to see where the fire was
and all was confusion. One of the engines
fred up and was at once on the scene, but
the alarm it seemed was false one. F. w.
Shubert, a militiaman who lives at 141 Greene
street, was arrested at the instigation of Fire
Marshal Kennedy for giving the alarm.
Shubert told as his story that he had re-
ceived orders from General Greeley to ring
the alarm as a signal for the procession to
move on. -Shubert got the key of Hurlburt,
the grocer on that corner. Shubert was af-
terward discharged at the police Office.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-18

At the central mission rooms, 1872 Meadow
street, Mrs. E. P Jenkins, of the Naylor
mission at New York city, will speak to-
morrow afternoon and Rev. Mr.. Mosman, the
superintendent of missions, in the evening"
Bible class at 9:15 in the forenoon for one
hour as usual. The Christian Endeayor
society of the College street church will con-
duct the evening service at the COTE street
hall